A census of penguin colony counts (provided to OBIS) from the year 1900 to 1996 in the Antarctic Region

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; BIRDS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; Penguin; Colonies; counts; Census; Antarctic; Subantarctic Islands; OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; OBIS/SCAR-MARBIN; AMD/SCAR-MARBIN; OBIS/AADC; ANTABIF; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/census-penguin-colony-antarctic-region/685151; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/FAUNA_PENGUIN_COLONY; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=2216; http://www.iobis.org/; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=FAUNA_PENGUIN_COLONY

The dates provided in temporal coverage are approximate only. As well as the original spreadsheet, a modified spreadsheet is available for download from the URL given below. The AADC cannot guarantee the quality of the modified dataset. The codes used in the type and accuracy column are: C = chick A = Adult N = Nest B = Birds (when no information available as to whether chick or adult) 1 = pairs/nests essentially individually counted. The count is probably accurate to better than plus or minus 5 %. 2 = numbers of pairs in a known area counted individually and knowing the total area of the colony, the overall total calculated. This technique is useful for very large colonies. 3 = Accurate estimates; plus or minus 10-15 % accuracy. 4 = Rough estimate; accurate to 25-50%. 5 = Guesstiamte; to nearest order of magnitude. This dataset is a census of penguin colony counts from the year 1900 in the Antarctic region. It forms part of the Inventory of Antarctic seabird breeding sites within the Antarctic and subantarctic islands. The Antarctic and subantarctic fauna database (seabirds) is a database detailing the distribution and abundance of breeding localities for Antarctic and Subantarctic seabirds. Each species' compilation was produced by members of the SCAR Bird Biology Subcommittee. This separate metadata record has been created beacause it represents only the penguin colony counts that have been published to OBIS. Note: The Year (not day or month) date is only relevent in this dataset. The positions that have been published to OBIS include latitude and longitude positions that were not included within the original dataset. The latitude and longitude positions that were not noted by the observer have been created from the locality given by the observer using the Antarctic Composite Gazetteer. Two spreadsheets are available for download, from the URL given below. The original, unmodified spreadsheet is available, as well as a corrected spreadsheet. In the corrected spreadsheet, the AADC has attempted to reconcile the poorly presented localities into a single column. It is possible that some of these localities may not be correct. The fields in this dataset are: SCAR Number Species Region Locality Longitude Latitude Number of Colonies Number of Pairs Type and accuracy of count Data Date References Remarks These data are further referenced in ANARE Research Notes 9 - see reference below.